[HIGHLIGHTS] Before major NATO maneuvers: Putin confidant Medvedev threatens “big war”

Before major NATO maneuvers: Putin confidant Medvedev threatens “big war”. Between Poland and Lithuania: NATO exercise to defend the Baltics: The Baltics could be cut off by land routes.

The German forces are providing simulated battles around the Suwalki Corridor between the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and Belarus. Germany wants to equip the Ukrainians with Leopard 1 tanks and Marder infantry fighting vehicles for large units in the coming months. The head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Vienna on military security and arms control: “Strengthening the alliance is not for defense, but actually to expand the possibilities for to test possible provocations.”